ATI Radeon 8500 vs Tesla K8

Place in the ranking	461	1499
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	6.62	0.06
Architecture	Kepler (2012−2018)	Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code name	GK104	R200
Market segment	Workstation	Desktop
Release date	16 September 2014 (10 years ago)	14 August 2001 (23 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	1536	no data
Core clock speed	693 MHz	275 MHz
Boost clock speed	811 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	3,540 million	60 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	100 Watt	23 Watt
Texture fill rate	103.8	2.200
Floating-point processing power	2.491 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	32	4
TMUs	128	8

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 4x
Length	241 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	None

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	64 MB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1250 MHz	275 MHz
Memory bandwidth	160.0 GB/s	8.8 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (11_0)	8.1
Shader Model	5.1	no data
OpenGL	4.6	1.4
OpenCL	1.2	N/A
Vulkan	1.1.126	N/A
CUDA	3.0	-

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	9.66	0.02
Recency	16 September 2014	14 August 2001
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	64 MB
Chip lithography	28 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	100 Watt	23 Watt

Tesla K8 has a 48200% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 13 years, a 12700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 435.7% more advanced lithography process.

ATI 8500, on the other hand, has 334.8% lower power consumption.

The Tesla K8 is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon 8500 in performance tests.

Be aware that Tesla K8 is a workstation graphics card while Radeon 8500 is a desktop one.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.